"They played together every day and to come to school every day now and he's not there, a lot of them are going to ask where's Codrick and why's he not here," said Angie Adams, Codrick's teacher. "A lot of them don't understand."

His teacher at the daycare said she talked to the kids about gun safety. One child told her he had a toy gun but that he was going to go home and throw it away.